SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of experience in Software Development and Management.
• Having 6+ years of experience as a Certified ScrumMaster in Project Management and expertise in Coaching/Mentoring, facilitating meetings, collaboration between the Scrum Team, stakeholder and users.
• 6+ years of experience in Software testing.
• 7+ years of experience in embedded software development & quality control.
• Exposure to all phases of software development life cycle in Agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies.
• Expertise in grooming and mentoring of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Experience with facilitating scrum ceremonies for multiple teams (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement & Review/Demo).
• Expertise in Agile Principles like Communication Relative Estimation, Story - Based Development, and Conflict Resolution.
• Expert at driving the adoption and coaching of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-organized management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Facilitate and participate in Scrum of Scrum(SOS) meeting to focus on areas of overlap and integration and identify dependency management issues and opportunities.
• Facilitate and collaborate meeting and discussion between the Product owner and stake holders in creating, prioritizing and maintaining the PBI.
• Experience working with the Development team to calculate maintain and improve velocity and load of the DT.
• Hands on experience with agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, BDD, TDD, ATDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by facilitating collaboration among the scrum and finding the right personnel to resolve issues.
• Hands on Experience in various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach like Burndown technologies, Retrospective formats, handling bugs.
• Hands on experience in Agile management using JIRA, VersionOne and Confluence.
• Proficient with MS Office tools such as MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Excellent work experience in managing Onsite and Offshore teams.
• Strong Analytical and interpersonal communication skills.
• Outstanding organizational, Mentoring, communication, and presentation skills.
• Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems : KOS, DOS, Win 9X/NT/2000/XP, Windows Server 2003/08/08R2/12/12R2 and UNIX.

Languages: Assembly Language, C, C++, Java, J2EE, .Net and Visual Basic 6.0.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, XML Spy, Ajax, VB Script, Java Script and shell script

Databases: Oracle 9i, 10g and SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access 2007.

Agile Approaches: Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Safe, XP.

Test Automation Tools: QTP 9.0/9.2/9.5/10.0 , Win Runner, Load Runner, Web load and CTT.

Test Management Tools : Quality Centre 8.2/9/0/9.2, Test Director & Team track.

Project Management Tools: Jira, VersionOne, Confluence, MS Project, SEEC AM Tool.

Version Control Tools: TFS, SVN, Visual Source Safe

Others: MS office Suite (Word, excel, Power point, Access, project)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 20% and the quality of deliverables by 25%.
• Responsible for implementing, facilitating and enabling the Scrum process at the team level for the SAP & Devops team.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Strong experience as SCRUM Master with mastery over SCRUM Process. Strong experience as SCRUM Master with mastery over SCRUM Process.
• Analyzed the gathered requirement and reviewed Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD) for developing better understanding of system requirement to assist development team's operations.
• Assisted team with impediment removal, manage backlog and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of over 15 major initiatives.
• In a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) the Scrum Master has additional responsibilities to accommodate for the support of scaling Agile as prescribed by SAFe.
• Closely worked with the BRD data warehouse team in implementing history for the tables and available for them in discussing business requirement document if they need any assistance in verifying the requirements back and forth and clarified their doubts.
• Strong Leadership skills with ability to facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution and successfully handle the SCRUM Meetings.
• Responsible for meeting with the Customers (Companies) and interviewing them about their BI request. Information from these meetings led to the construction of a BRD and FRD to reflect the type of Claim and/or Leave reports they desired.
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among agile teams across IT departments.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Guide and coach multiple teams from different time zones on Agile transformation
• Responsible for report generation and updates on all tasks, hours reporting, burn down and sprint reports.
• Maintaining the milestones by updating the progress and managing changes to dates.
• Leading the sessions to go over dependencies, risks, and issues and update JIRA accordingly.
• Experienced in writing complicated JIRA queries and pulling reports from JIRA that can help access team’s performance.
• Creating Scrum boards, Kanban boards, dashboards and structures to help team function more actively.
• Ensuring during the sprint planning meet that tasks provided by the team achieve a 100% utilization of all team members across teams.
• Ensuring latest Technical Data Document and other documents are prepared and uploaded.
• Scheduling all sprint ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retro, sprint planning and Product Backlog Refinement.
• Executing all sprint ceremonies along with PO (product owner).
• Ensure correct sizing and prioritization, User story grooming, release planning.
• Ensure collaboration and participation of Stake holders and actual end users at scrum reviews to get better feedback and provide valuable product for the clients

Confidential, Irving, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and facilitate scrum events like daily scrum, backlog grooming session, project demo, project review and retrospective with cross functional teams Coaching Scrum teams.
• Working closely with the teams through agile events coaching on performing the activities, playing the roles and generating artifacts based on SAFe and Agile best practices
• Track daily progress through burn down chart, document artifacts, reviews, acceptance and feedback from the demos or showcases.
• Involved in prior BRD and business process to understand the scope and development of the system being developed
• Plan sprints schedule for a project and ensure success in developing and rolling out a new feature / functionality after each release.
• Communicate with stakeholders, encourage collaboration with team members stressing continuous improvement through use of Kanban and Scrum.
• Conduct business analysis and perform various types of tests including functional, Regression, integration, performance, stress, volume and compatibility tests.
• Created self-assessment framework for program and teams to do an assessment of SAFe maturity and handed off to scrum masters for coordination of future sessions
• Set clear and attainable project objectives for the team and will lead the direction of the team to ultimately deliver to the expectations of the project vision
• Experience in facilitating the product owners to come up with the meaningful backlog that aligns with the program.
• Set Extensive consulting at team program and portfolio level
• Create story board and use is every day to add and update tasks.
• Interact with product owner on regular basis and get the requirements and Analyze them and prepare the user stories and ensured that they are Independent, Negotiable Valuable, Estimable, Small and testable.
• Keep a track of all the bugs and change request and ensure they are fixed and thoroughly tested.
• Communicate the progress of the development team to the stakeholder from across the company.
• Take charge of representing the team in weekly status meetings held by product teams.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

ScrumMaster

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple cross-functional project teams of various sizes while managing system integration projects for Financial Company.
• Leading on-going reviews of business process and developing optimization strategies.
• Budgeting and time schedule for the project.
• Manage and assist Scrum team of 7 to 9 members with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition; participate proactively in Scrum of Scrums to develop and maintain team standards, tools and best practices
• Developed and detailed project plans and estimated based on identified risks and options.
• Create User stories, Wireframes and Functional Design deliverables and submitted in sprints
• Managed changes and project scope, identified potential crisis, and devised contingency plan.
• Initiated escalation within the organization to resolve project issues and mitigate risk.
• Conduct user interviews and A/B tests to help identify and understand different process for each user while simultaneously identifying their pain points of end user.
• Tracked metrics and communicated project progress to project steering committee.
• Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Removing impediments and coaching the team to remove them; coaching the team in modern development practices
• Driving agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, continuous improvement, pair programming, product visioning, acceptance test driven development (ATDD) and test-driven development (TDD).
• Update Agile tracking system (JIRA) to provide transparency on product/sprint backlog and track team progress
• Conducted Release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospective meetings. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Improving the velocity and performance of each consecutive sprint, post sprint feedback and analysis from the retrospective meetings.
• Resolve impediments for the team by raising awareness appropriately, acting, building effective relationships with others, and bringing cross functional teams together for process improvement.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.
• Monitored development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Managed the insights and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.
• Built and maintained excellent client partner relationships.